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RSAC insights: Software tampering escalates as bad actors take advantage of ‘dependency confusion’

The Last Watchdog

Log4J, aka Log4Shell, refers to a gaping vulnerability that exists in an open-source logging library that’s deeply embedded within servers and applications all across the public Internet. Its function is to record events in a log for a system administrator to review and act upon. Implementing SBOM.

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Log4J: What You Need to Know

Adam Levin

“Log4j is so prevalent – utilized by millions of third-party enterprise applications, cloud services and manufacturers, including Apple, Twitter and Tesla – that security teams may have difficulties pinpointing where the library is actually being used,” observed cybersecurity firm Duo Security. . What is Log4J?

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XMR crypto miner switches from arm IoT devices to X86/I686 Intel servers

Security Affairs

Akamai researcher Larry Cashdollar reported that a cryptocurrency miner that previously hit only Arm-powered IoT devices it now targeting Intel systems. “This one seems to target enterprise systems.” “The malware is uploaded as gzip compressed tarball archives of binaries, scripts, and libraries.

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MY TAKE: Memory hacking arises as a go-to tactic to carry out deep, persistent incursions

The Last Watchdog

In fact, memory attacks have quietly emerged as a powerful and versatile new class of hacking technique that threat actors in the vanguard are utilizing to subvert conventional IT security systems. GLIBC keeps common code in one place, thus making it easier for multiple programs to connect to the company network and to the Internet.

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MY TAKE: Log4j’s big lesson – legacy tools, new tech are both needed to secure modern networks

The Last Watchdog

However, once the commercial Internet took hold, developers began leveraging open-source components far and wide in proprietary systems. Log4j, for instance, is a ubiquitous logging library. Its rather mundane function is to record events in a log for a system administrator to review and act upon, later.

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Building the Relationship Between RM and IT

The Texas Record

Whether it’s creating and securing electronic records or establishing a process to capture records from social media sites, records managers often find themselves working closely with their Information Technology (IT) Departments. Who approached who first, was it because of an issue or was the approach voluntary? So they approached me first.

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Roboto, a new P2P botnet targets Linux Webmin servers

Security Affairs

One of the addresses disguised the Bot sample as a Google font library “ roboto. ” The analysis of the bot revealed that it supports seven functions: reverse shell, self-uninstall, gather process’ network information, gather Bot information, execute system commands, run encrypted files specified in URLs, DDoS attack, etc.